the number of young victims of knife crime admitted to hospitals in england has risen by more than 50% in the past five years. staff at london zoo say they are devastated after an endangered sumatran tiger is killed by another tiger. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. the headlines this evening.... last year's grand slam champions are off the mark — as ireland beat scotland after a tough battle at murrayfield. a much—changed wales hold on to beat italy in rome, thanks largely to dan biggar‘s boot... and the manchester united express just keeps on going,

as victory over fulham moves them into the top four. also coming up in the programme... emotional scenes at southampton as cardiff pay tribute to emiliano sala. and another collapse? england's top order fails once again on the first day of the third test in st lucia. good evening and welcome to the programme... a week on from their six nations defeat to england in dublin last week, defending champions ireland travelled to edinburgh to put their campaign back on track. they had to deal with a stubborn scotland though, who hadn't been beaten at murrayfield in a championship game since 2016.

our sports correspondent katie gornall was there. the six nations is a serious plate at gale force where momentum could blow one night way and that the next. after the opening we can scotla nd next. after the opening we can scotland have it, i really don't. a bruising defeat to england last week meant eileen arrived at murray fail with hopes of retaining their six nations title on the lie. scotland had their own aspirations. an area that was ruthlessly punished. for pitch with a shoulder injury after just 60 minutes. before he had made it out of the tunnel, arlind struck again. last year's player of the tournamentjacob again. last year's player of the tournament jacob stockdale to slick and too quick. it was time for it scotland's of the star to step forward. finn russell seems to view the game in slow motion and his computer but sam johnson sir. now the pressure was all on island. at half—time they can't whether the scottish storm 2812—10. x further

front as joey pierce the scottish storm 2812—10. x further front asjoey pierce the scottish defendant. these were nervy times for the home side. they tried and eventually failed to relay arlind will be feeling very relieved after this month. it wasjust will be feeling very relieved after this month. it was just a when they needed to get their title ambitions back on track. as for scotland, they will feel this was an opportunity missed, but they will have a chance to get there on that before too long in their opening game against ireland in the world cup injapan in the autumn. i think we just muscled our way through it, to be honest. it wasn't the prettiest game. we got a peach of a set piece try. and a couple of broken field running trys. i think we restricted them to an intercept try. from their perspective especially in the first half, we were in 22, 34% of the time in their half for about 72% of the time. that was a massive defeat of effort. even then, to say it was on our advantage. we kind of went to sleep a little bit there.

we have got to be better than that. defences were strong today. both teams ran a few errors. i thought the first half was very good from our side of it. i thought it was a very good test match. the second half, the pace went out and we didn't really string the phases together like we did in the first half. that sent our execution at times. to rome then where wales followed up on last week's win in paris with an unconvnincing victory over italy at the stadio 0lympico. it was a recrod equalling iith successive victory, and tees up a crunch cardiff clash against england in a fortnight‘s time. hanah lupton reports. wells changed ten players for this match but one thing state consistent, lending. they were aiming fortheir consistent, lending. they were aiming for their 11th consistent, lending. they were aiming fortheiriith in consistent, lending. they were aiming for their 11th in a row. having left it late against france, it's only 60 seconds to get up and running against italy with dan

kicking them ahead. wales struggled to break through the host resolute defence which at the other end managed to bulldozer over for only the first half try. despite that wales had a five point cushion at the break. the tempo was about to pick up. the man in red got the breeding state they needed whenjosh adams burst through from the left. then gareth‘s chip set up 0wen watkin for his first try in a whales shirt. 0nce watkin for his first try in a whales shirt. once that was converted, wells lists 16 points ahead. a lead was cut back when italy crossed over for a second time. that means that his team had forgotten how to lose, and no wonder that his 11 wings in a i’ow. and no wonder that his 11 wings in a row. the first time they have done that for more than a century. well that's the six nations covered. holly can tell us now what's been happening in the premier league today. it's been a busy day lots of movers and shakers at the top and bottom of the table — more on that in just a moment — but there was something more

important than football on the minds of all players in the premier league this afternoon. you may have noticed they were all wearing black armbands today. that was in honour of emiliano sala after his body was identified this week. in southampton — where cardiff city were playing for the fisrt time since that news this week — a minutes silence was held as well. while many also wore yellow daffodils in honour of the striker. when that game did get uderway — sol bamba opened the scoring in the second half but southampton looked like they were going to salvage a point afterjack stephens leveller in the 91st miniute — but a last gasp winner means cardiff take the three points and mvoe out of the relegation zone. the crowd have been amazing. you saw them today. i'm really pleased. a long way they have come and they deserve that the last few weeks. it's been difficult for everybody. i thought today was appropriate. first time since 1962 we have got back—to—back wins, and i think emiliano would like that. i think he would feel really proud

that the lads have done him justice. meanwhile it's business as usual for liverpool — who restored their three point lead at the top. jurgen klopp admitted today they knew they needed to improve. for us, we wanted to show reaction. and not on the noise around, only on the performance we had. it is ourjob not only to come through somehow, we wanted to convince. we wanted to really perform. and today we did that. we had outstanding football moments on the pitch. i think the first goal, second ball with the set piece and was nice. it was a tough game for us today. i

thought liverpool were excellent. disappointing was the manner of the goals. the second goal is a turnover of possession for us i thought. as for manchester united, they have now moved into the top floor of the premier league following a convincing 3—0 win at fulham. it was a 10th victory in 11 games under caretaker manager 0le gunnar solskjaer. fulham remain in serious trouble and seven points from safety. here's stuart pollitt with more. under 0le gunnar solskjaer, manchester united have been revitalised. today they were reshuffled. six and changes against struggling fulham settled the better. a waste of their first and best chance. paul pogba made them pay. a ferocious strike. sergio unmoved, pogba able to show off his moves to the united fans. that was nothing compared to what

anthony martial was about to demonstrate. united cruising, there watching on her shirley impressed. a penalty which pogba converted. jose mourinho predicted united will make the top four in the new year. his successor has done just that. psg are next up in the champions league. but domestically at least there is still not stopping the smiling solskjaer. judge about our work and catch are doing. i really support what our boys are doing today. this makes me proud and the lady supporters helped us proud and the lady supporters helped us in the end shows that we are doing it the right way. me myself

andi doing it the right way. me myself and i will fight into the end to stay with us. today i think their work was very good. we didn't win in a long time. today i think we can't complain. 0ur way is continuing. at the moment they have been closer than tougher. it was an unhappy return to watford for former manager marco silva as his everton side lost 1—0 at vicarage road. andre gray scored the only goal in the second half — his first goal since september. a third straight league defeat for everton — who had kurt zouma sent off after full time. i felt a little bit different. but i'm very happy for all our supporters because maybe for them today it was something different, something special, but for us it is important because we have got three important points. we created more than enough chances during the match to score a goal.

after the 1—0 to them, we created a chance to score. and the second half, two balls off the crossbar. and the shots were created. but at the moment, we did not score. so let's have a quick look at the other resultswe haven't told you about so far. and that was a 1—1 draw at selhurst park between crystal palace and west ham at selhurst park. mark noble's first half penalty was levelled by wilfried zaha's second half equaliser. in the late game — burnley have beaten brighton 3—1 to move out of the relegation zone. so let's have a look at what does to the table then — well liveprool back at the top — three points above manchester city. and there's manchester united back in the top four since the start of the season — they move above chelsea on 51 points down at the bottom then — that esult in southampton has lifted cardiff above southampton and out of the relegation zone. and fulham's defeat to man united mean they remain firmyl entrnched in the relegation zone.

right that pretty much wraps up the day's premier league news. over to hugh now for the day's other football and the rest of the day's sport. it's scottish cup weekend, and kilmarnock have held rangers to a goalless draw. rangers missed a golden chance to take the lead when daniel bachmann saved james tavernier‘s penalty in the first half. then in the second it was joe worral‘s turn have his head in his hands as his free header went wide. the two sides will meet in a replay at ibrox on the 20th of february. in the day's earlier scottish cup ties partick thistle won 1—0 at east fife to progress. hibernian beat raith 3—1 and a bit of a shock at premiership saint mirren who lost 2—1 at home to championship side dundee united. west bromwich albion have beaten stoke at the bet365 stadium to go fourth in the championship.

in a tight game it was dwight gayle who made the breakthrough, heading the baggies into the lead after a well worked set piece. that was gayles sixteenth goal in the league this season. in the day's earlier game leeds returned to the top of the table thanks to a 101st minute equaliser at middlesbrough. it finished 1—1 at the riverside. there were wins today for bristol city, preston, derby and nottingham forest. birmingham led 4—0 at qpr — quite a comeback was on the cards at loftus road — the home side missing a penalty late on to make it 4—4. the games at rotherham and sheffield wednesday both ended in draws while swansea beat millwall. england's cricketers have endured a difficult start in the third and final test against the west indies in saint lucia. the hosts have an unassailable 2—0 lead going into the match with england now 125—11. patrick gearey has been following the action. a cry to the heavens for help or a

necessary step. england responded to their batting problems might be a calling keatonjennings are the only top last week. before long, he will stop again. this time by roston chase in the slips. jennings career seemed to step on a loop. every endings condemned to end like that. nowhere fast, angrily —— england scratched along. less than he thought they had told them he caught behind. he was reprieved only because his hand was not on the back. he wouldn't be relaxed to lose his grip. rory burns on 29th missed a straight line, so that the umpire, thatis a straight line, so that the umpire, that is what technology is for. burns, toast. 69—2 became 69—3, then gone this time. no wasted time celebrating, he knew there would be other chances. lc others did not a lwa ys other chances. lc others did not always ta ke other chances. lc others did not always take them. butler escaped. teacher between misery and slapstick comedy, now a time for bravery. england looked to their captain for that. joe rutte was having to fight for the rhythm which usually comes so for the rhythm which usually comes so naturally. knowing at any point

it might desert him. he went before tea time with the ending still fragile. now england must spend the evening trying to stop history repeating. so, how do we feel england are stacking up at tea? 7 114-4. —— they are now 129—4. former england world cup winner lydia greenwayjoins me now.. let's start with keaton jennings. .. struggling a bit. i thinkjust outside of stump, it has proved it probably is something that he needs to go away and work on. he scored a century not too long ago. i think recently in the sri lanka series. of course they're going to be doubts but of course from a wider angle i think in terms of their structure of the team, still questions to be answered. speaking to world cup winner who joins answered. speaking to world cup winner whojoins us now. has been working on the cricket social for bbc sport.

what about the tap water for a whole? feels like it's already down. not the series they would have wa nted not the series they would have wanted at all. again another familiar day i guess. it is. for me i looked at the start of the day and quite helpful. keatonjennings and rory burns, the way they were playing chilled a bit more promise in terms of they seemed to be more willing to be patient and show that discipline that they have been searching for. but i guess it is a matter of the way the wickets have fallen. players playing perhaps a little bit too loose. that is something that they will be going away to work on. because they have finally got one more test match after this or one more test match series against ireland before they get into the anxious series. a big year ahead for england in the shortfall. test matches as well, with the ashes to come later in the year. how do you think england will not approach the rest of their time with the bat in hand? is it a pitch that you would have wanted to bet on first? do you think there will be more difficulties ahead? it will be

a lot of talk about the wickets throughout the whole series. if anything it has been a little bit slower. it should work in favour for the baptist especially with the west indies, pace attack that they have not come in very threatening. from that point of view, i think there is a wicket that is conducive to getting big scores. but theyjust need to make sure they try to have a big partnership. it continues on the bbc sport website. thank you so much for joining bbc sport website. thank you so much forjoining us. it's been a busy day at the athletics indoor british championships so far. in the 60 metres hurdles, cindy 0fili beat katarina johnson—thompson to pick up her first national title. 0fili, who is the younger sister of national record holder tiffany porter, claimed the win to mark a successful return from a serious achilles injury. johnson—thompson has chance to make amends in the long jump tomorrow. the time off may me really realise that this part means so much to me.

the opportunity one is such a blessing. i'm so happy to be here, it's amazing honestly. it was just so it's amazing honestly. it was just so difficult. but i'm training really ha rd, so difficult. but i'm training really hard, so i'm glad to be back. and, it's a bit further than she usually runs, but laura muir has just become the british indoor 3000 metre champion. she smashed through the last 400 metres to take the title in 8 minutes 48 seconds. melissa courtney took the silver and amy eloise—neal ran a lifetime best to take the bronze. and dwain chambers' comeback ended quickly after he was disqualified for false starting in the 60 metres. the ao—year—old retired injuly 2017, but raced at an open meeting in december where hejust missed out on the qualifying time for this seasons' european championships in glasgow. missing out on clocking a qualifying time and not finishing in the top two today, means the former 60m world champion may have run out of opportunities to be selected for the team. turning attentions to the fed cup — and katie boulter has

delivered yet again. johanna konta is in action right now as great britain take on serbia. russell fuller is in bath watching the action and so far so good today? russell fuller is watching the action. so far so good today. katie balter looking that again. you can have a fantastic week at this level of the competition. when all your matches but if you don't manage at this extent it is to no avail. she needs to end this to qualify for an player. and in april which will determine if they can play in the world group at the fed cup for the first time years and once again. next katie balter winning herfourth match. it has been a baby in her cup singles this week. she wanted straight sets. a very tight matching the progress between the two number one players. serbian was tight in

the first set. a brilliant tie—break. 0ne the first set. a brilliant tie—break. one by 7—1. there was a break—up in the second set as well. ifi break—up in the second set as well. if i have a look at the score now, she's got things back. to have entered in the second set. potentially four games away from victory now great britain. that seems a long way away. thank you. you can follow the action on the bbc sport website. northampton saints are through to the premiership rugby cup final after a record breaking win against the newcastle falcons. northampton had to come from behind though. josh matavesi with the second of three early tries for newcastle, as they raced into a 21—0 lead. northampton fought back — lewis ludlam with their third try — as newcastle led 28—21 at half time. seven more tries followed in the second half, northampton with six of them, including this one for luther burrell. 1a tries in total — the most in a premiership cup game. northampton winning 59—33 and they'll play saracens in the final next month. the catalan dragon have

beaten huddersfield giants in the super league. despite going behind early to a matt frawley try, the dragons rallied back to win 27—10, with a double from brayden wiliame, and tries from lewis tierney and sam tomkins. right let's quickly round up some of the day's other sports stories and we'll stay with rugby league because national conference side lock lane will be in the third round draw of the challenge cup, that's after a 28—22 victory over milford. that was one of 13 ties today with all the details on the bbc sport website. the british horseracing authority says no new cases of equine flu have been found following tests on hundreds of horses. the shutdown of horse racing in the country has continued for a third day due to the outbreak. five more meetings were cancelled today with racing not resuming until wednesday at the earliest. norway's kjetiljansrud won gold in the men's downhill

at the alpine world ski championships in sweden. he finished point zero two seconds ahead of retiring compatriot and double olympic gold medallist aksel lund svindal. it's jansrud's first world title. cheerleading may conjure up images of pom poms and ra—ra skirts but in reality it s an extreme team sport requiring strength and agility. the world championships involve tens of thousands of athletes competing in the usa and so we sent mike to newbury to train with one of the best the british teams. cheering. acrobatics and gymnastics. in time with the music and each other, at a breathtaking pace. # high hopes for a living. it started out as a way for cheering on

sports team and became a global sports team and became a global sport and its own right. the general stereotype is compounds and girls wearing family skirts. to tell you how different it is on our girls can play rugby. some have had to play by, play rugby. some have had to play rugby, we have had a rugby team in here and they have lasted 15 minutes doing cheerleading. so that is the level of fitness. you have to work really hard. yeah. what i like about all the noise is that you think that you are inside of a special case. and everyone is supporting you. early cheerleading started in the late 1800s and it was all male activity used to cheer on the couege activity used to cheer on the college teams, with phrases such as hoorah! and tiger! by the time it became professional in the 1950s in america it had become predominately like it is now, an all—female activity. you can see how quickly it spread across the uk. many clubs do have men and boys now competing too.

but the crimson heat tigris and newberry wants to keep their world championship training sessions all—female. championship training sessions all-female. the whole idea if they can come in the comfortable without having any outside pressure. they can be sweaty, where no makeup, they can be sweaty, where no makeup, they can come in and trail because that is what they are coming here to do. it is because it is about more than just spark here, they find that the cheerleading team extends outside the abilene, school, family or they'll start out by social media. it certainly helped aisha when she arrived in the uk from hungary in 2013 and couldn't speak a word of english. this change my life. a lot more open, my social skills have improved. girls do get bullied outside but you always know you think i'm here because it is sort of like a family. it diminishes the effect of all that bullying because you know you have got people behind you. everyone can call each other and if someone is laid down, you just get there and meet up and stuff. it is the strength on the cheerleading family that builds the

trust which enables such a daring acrobatic routine. all about building from the bottom of the structure, laying the foundation. 0ne structure, laying the foundation. one of the first moves is the christ. even with the pressure of the world championships coming up. they were willing to show me their strength. top of the pyramid! don't panic about the lake coming through kicking you in the face, you will be fine. one lives on the let me into their inner circle of trust. thank you! yes, they survived intact to the onset of to against tens of thousands of thousands of others at the world in america this spring. have you ever had a guy cheerleading? i haven't. supporting a thing, but no pom—poms. cheerleading? i haven't. supporting a thing, but no pom-poms. the super bowl this year had male cheerleaders for the first time. we will get you signed up, no problem. i can't dance that well. for more on the cricket on the bbc sport

website. there will be more support later on, but thank you forjoining us on later on, but thank you forjoining us on sports day. have a very good evening, good night. we have had a spell of very windy weather heavenly. thanks to storm eric. a storm is out of the way now. still a bit of a thing, it is very blustery but the winds are easing and in the wake of that when the system there is another one heading oui’ system there is another one heading our way. it has already arrived in oui’ our way. it has already arrived in our shores. this is storm erik here. approaching southern areas, cloudy means for the course of the night. the rain will come and go, the winds are not a problem with it this month. northeastern parts of the country will be relatively clear tonight. also the touch of frost

here and there. difference is i think depending where you are for tonight. frosty in the north and claire but mild with some rain. at least coming in and going for the night in the south. what can we expect on sunday? here's the way the system early in the day, bringing a lot of clout and some outbreaks of rain. a clear—cut edge to display the system, there is a lot of clout and bits and pieces of light rain. left over for the second half of the day. it does improve, there will be sunshine around for the midlands and wales and the north of england, probably the best place will be cancelled. later in the afternoon more heavy showers drifting to northern ireland. this area of weather here, that is going to move across central parts of the uk. during sunday, later sunday afternoon. i need the evening hours. the weather will be changing, coming and going through the course of the day. the sunshine that is. monday we are watching this area of high pressure to the south west of us across iberia there on monday. a

high pressure which is going to establish itself not just high pressure which is going to establish itself notjust across the uk but across much of western europe. it really will settle things down. any weather systems as you can see behind me will be diverted north whereas we will be on the influence of the high—pressure and that means a lot of fine leather on the way from monday. not just a lot of fine leather on the way from monday. notjust monday but tuesday, wednesday, thursday. this is the jet stream. you can see it shifting northwards and going around the uk. and diving down across in some parts of europe. a very big area of high pressure testing and building almost out of morocco across iberia into france and central parts of europe. mild air heading our way as well. the best summary, here it is, the bullet points for the weekend. a lot of dry weather around. the days will be quite mild. with the clear skies and say skies and clear skies at night those temperatures will go away. very competent weather in the week ahead. not bad at all. this is bbc news.

the headlines. the duke of edinburgh is to voluntarily give up his driving licence, buckingham palace has said this evening. no ships and now, n0 contract. the government cancels a controversial agreement for extra ferries in case of a ‘no—deal brexit‘. the democratic senator, elizabeth warren, launches her bid to become the party's candidate for 2020 — promising to champion ordinary, working people. millions and millions and millions of american families are also struggling to survive in a system that has been rigged, rigged by the wealthy and the well—connected. counting the cost of knife crime, the number of young victims admitted to hospitals in england has risen by more than 50 per cent in 5 years. and in the six nations, ireland beat scotland